The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-30

The jury stood eight for conviction and
| four for acQuittal. This afternoon
Cora Lee gave another bond of 81 900,
| her securities representing over 81 Co.,
| 600. Tomorrow the trial Of Emma
Molloy, on an Indictment charging her
with being an accessory after the fact,
comes up. w. J. Wallace, Judge of
the Marshfield District, will try the
case, Judge Hubbard having been at
torney for the state in the case.
NICHOLS MURDERERS IN THE PEN.
JOLIET, H., June 23.lSchWartZ and
Watt, convicted of the murder of Mes
senger Nichols, were brought here and
placed in the penitentiary to-day.
GOPHERS AT NEWTON.
NEWTON, Kas., June 22.-The safe
of j. w. Edwards s. Co. was broken
into last night. but nothing taken but a
Lumber Company was also operated on,
but the burglars were frightened of
without obtaining plumber.
WIFE PRISONER LYNCHED.
ABERDEEN, Miss, June 23.-At 2
o'clock this morning forty masked men
rode into Kosciusko, proceeded to the
jail, overpowered the jailer and took
James NJ. Webb, a white man, to
convenient place and hanged him. On
for which he was arrested and brought
to jail. The evidence was so strong
against him, that the Indignation of
the community was aroused to the
lynching point.
SHE Is AN ADVENTURES.
DENVER, June 23.-Detectives ac-
quainted with her career are satisfied
that Mrs. Brooks, whom recent tele-
grams from VaSSar, Mich, claimed
held RnTAfIUn in Califnfr1in NV
bandits in order to secure possession of
her fortune, and Mrs. Anna Butter
field, of Riverside, Gala, are one and
the same person and that she has not
nor never had the amount of money
left her that she claims. They regard
the stories in circulation about her
canards.
SHOT AND KILLED,
CHARLESTON s. c., June, 23.-A.
o. Norton and his son Richard shot
and killed ]. !. Hamler, of Abbeville
this morning at Parlor Station. on the
EutawVille Railroad. Both were arrest
ed. The cause of the affair is not stated.
A COLLISION IN MID OCEAN.
BALTIMORE, June 23.-Captain Hum
mel of the British steamship Lore,
which arrived here this evening from
Rotterdam, reports that on Tuesday
last about 6 O'Clock in the evening his
vessel was in collision with the British
brigantine Aldwith of Prince Edwards
Island, which was carrying cargo of
sugar from st. Luca to New York.
The collision occurred off Cape HenlO-
pen in a dense fog. Three of the briggs,
crew jumped aboard the Lore, but
though the steamer lay around for
several hours nothing could be seen of
the brig.
THE SHARPE TRIAL.
NEW VnRR Tnnp 81 In tho Shornn
trial to-day Lawyer Scribner, attorney
for Sharpe, in negotiations leading up
to the granting of the Broadway fran
chise was recalled. On June 18th, he
said, the Broadway Stage Company
were bought out and they were paid
$3.50, 900 in the presence of Mr.. Sharpe.
Two detectives were called to prove
fed. The detectives testified to
having served subpoenas on
Maloney and Keel in Canada
within the last three days. Charles E.
Townsend, an accountant for the
Broadway Surface Company, said that
an issue of $4,000 in bonds had been
made. He made debit entry of like
amount to ''sundries." He could not
find out what the money was expended
S Il was k so%e as eF fhs sgSpeRss
Sharpe had received bills of large
denominations, such as it is alleged
were paid to the Doodle aldermen and
that he sometimes himself paid out
large sums.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
PEABODY, Kas, June PA. w.
Heath, one of the leading farmers and
stock men of this county, was killed by
lightning at his home this afternoon,
DESTROYED BY FIRE,
MONTGOMERY, Ala, June PA
special from Auburn reports the burn
ing this morning of the State Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Institute. Loss
$50, 900; insurance $4,000.
ROLLING MILLS BURNED.
WATERFOWL, Wis, Juue 24.-The
entire plant of the Chicago, Milwaukee,
and st. Paul rolling mills was destroy
ed by fire last night. Loss $3.50, 900.
Two hundred men are thrown out of
employment.
SAW MILL IN SMOKE.
WINONA, Mimi, June PA large
saw mill was burned this morning
involving loss of from 800, 900 to $780,
600.
ANOTHER MINE HORROR.
VIRGINIA, New, June 24.-Fire broke
out this evening in the Gould 81 Curry
mine. All the miners. with the
exception of six employed on the fif-
teen hundred feet level we're lost and the
Beecher Mine signals from them have
ceased. Fifteen miners are entombed,